Hey all!
Just wanted to quickly announce May/June’s Word Master.
Although I had to pick between three awesome entries, in the end, Magaly Guerrero’s Entry absolutely fulfilled every criterion I’d set for the Challenge.
She’s picked the 10 chapter crit as her prize, and looking at her mad writing skills, I’m definitely looking forward to reading more of her work.
Thanks again to all who’ve entered!
My next Word Master Challenge will be up next week.
Seriously. Is it Thursday already?
Man… I feel terrible for just disappearing, but this week has been a tough one. And…
Well… I don’t see my workload as getting any better in the near future.
Which, of course, means that I won’t be able to do a News Day either. So. I think I’m going to let it fall away. Instead, I’ll try and post one or two interesting links whenever I find something worth sharing.
I’m really sorry to do this, but I just need to make life easier on myself somehow.
BUT! For now, the Paying Forward Awards and the Word Master Challenge will be continuing for now.
Here’s a recap, for those of you unfamiliar with these two events.
The theme for May/June is:
Take your favorite famous book. Write a scene from it. In a totally different genre.
Bonus points if the reader can guess the original book without you telling us. More points if you can do the scene without it strictly being from the book itself, but we get the same sense from it.
Word Count: No more than 300 words.
Closing Date: 30 June 2013
Prizes: $10 Amazon Voucher or a 10 chapter critique by me or a query critique by me.
PLEASE NOTE!!! Don’t enter your link until you’ve written your entry. I want to be linked directly to your Word Master Challenge Post. NOT to your blog’s home page. Also, please make it clear that the entry is in fact for the Challenge. I don’t want to wonder about this later. Easiest way to do this is to copy/paste the badge above. Or to start the post’s title with “Word Master Challenge“. Go to this link to enter.
Hi all! As promised, I have a fresh challenge for those of you who are up to writing something new.
I’ll be doing a bit of final packing for my trip to Europe, so I’m going to get right to it.
The theme for May/June is:
Take your favorite famous book. Write a scene from it. In a totally different genre.
Bonus points if the reader can guess the original book without you telling us. More points if you can do the scene without it strictly being from the book itself, but we get the same sense from it.
Word Count: No more than 300 words.
Closing Date: 30 June 2013
Prizes: $10 Amazon Voucher or a 10 chapter critique by me or a query critique by me.
PLEASE NOTE!!! Don’t enter your link until you’ve written your entry. I want to be linked directly to your Word Master Challenge Post. NOT to your blog’s home page. Also, please make it clear that the entry is in fact for the Challenge. I don’t want to wonder about this later. Easiest way to do this is to copy/paste the badge above. Or to start the post’s title with “Word Master Challenge“.
http://www.simply-linked.com/listwidget.aspx?l=3a8a8bb1-f2bd-4300-a535-f05092ccb724 That’s it from me. What do you think of the Challenge’s theme?
See you in about ten days!
Okay! Now I really feel like April is over and I’m getting back to my regular schedule.
BUT I learnt from when I went to Berlin. There’s no chance of me doing regular postings from 13 to 24 May as I’ll be in Europe again.
So… that leaves me unable to plan a Paying Forward Award or Word Master Challenge. So. What I’m going to do is this.
I’m going to start collecting prizes for the Paying Forward Awards from tomorrow. For the end of June. Which means this will be the biggest awards to date. As always, I’ll need your help, so please start thinking of anything you have to offer that will make things awesome for another blogger. I’m more than willing to reciprocate by hosting a guest post by you or interviewing you or something like that.
As for the Word Master Challenge, I’ll open it on Monday.
Who’s excited for MFB’s return to normal?
Hey all! Just wanted to let you know I’ll be writing tonight, so I’m just going to re-post the theme for the Word Master Challenge.
For more information and to enter, please head over here. There are prizes to be won, so I really hope some more people get a chance to enter.
This month’s theme:
Pick your favorite place in the world. What does it look like? What’s the mood like?
You can have 50 or so words to create an introduction. The entry itself must be no longer than 300 words.
Scoring Parameters:
1) Clear, concise description.
2) Evocative writing.
3) Effective use of senses.
Closing date for entries: 31 March
Winners and new theme to be announced: 2 April
Interested? Then write me something awesome and enter.
Have a great weekend, all! X
Hey all! Welcome to this Month’s Results post.
Before we get to what I think everyone really wants to know, I just want to write a quick note about the Word Master Challenge. I think I gave people too little time to enter this time around (only two weeks) and it is a rather more challenging theme, so I decided to postpone the deadline to 31 March. If you don’t know what the Challenge is about, please go check it out. The entry is 300 words or less and you have a month to enter.
The winner gets to pick between a $10 e-voucher, a crit on the first 10 chapters and (because I now discover I love doing these) a query crit. Interested? Get writing, lovelies!
Right, now to the BIG news.
Thank you to each and every one of you who sponsored, nominated or voted for the awards. You all made it twice the size it had been in January. Which makes you all amazing people.
Now. Before I announce the winners, I just want to do a recap of how the prize claims work. Winners must contact me at mishagericke(AT)gmail(DOT)com with either “I came first” or “I came second“. I will then assign prizes on First places, First come first served basis. In other words. First prize winners get priority in the order that they contact me, followed by second prize winners in order that they contact me. I then assign prizes according to what people want most, second most etc. until all prizes have been assigned. First place winners who don’t contact me within a week will forfeit their place to the second place winners.
Okay!
And the winners are:
Congrats to you all! You definitely deserve some kudos!
Before you go, I just want to appeal to your heart. The Awards are growing and crawling into people’s hearts, but for me to keep it going I need your help.
If there’s anything you’d like to give away to make someone’s day, please become a sponsor for the month. I give you special mention when I open nominations and we can even arrange a guest post in return. Literally anything is welcome. From your e-book to crits, to vouchers, to beta reads and anything in between. Anything you think someone else would like.
If you’d like to help, please contact me at mishagericke(AT)gmail(DOT)com with “Paying Forward” in the subject line. Thank you in advance!
Yes, ladies and gents, I decided to write an entry for my own challenge. Naturally I can’t win, but I picked the theme after discovering the amazing Berliner Dom. Writing a description has been bothering me ever since, so here it is.
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| The first photo I took on entering the cathedral. |
Hi all!
Today is the day for me to announce the winners to the Paying Forward Awards and January’s Word Master Challenge.
Before I get to it, though, some admin. I know that my absence this month made things a bit difficult, so I want to use this opportunity to ask for February’s prize sponsors to please step forward. The arrangement is the same as before. You can volunteer anything you feel comfortable with volunteering. In return, you’ll be linked to on my blog and I can and will help with promoting your blog/book etc. If you’re interested, please contact me at mishagericke(AT)gmail(DOT)com to volunteer and if you have any questions. Please put “Paying Forward” as your topic. Thank you in advance!
And now, to the winners. After a long time wondering about how I’d divide the Paying Forward Awards, I thought I’d do it as follows:
I’m going to announce the first and second place winners for each category. They need to contact me ASAP at mishagericke(AT)gmail(DOT)com to claim prizes. Topic line: “I came first/second.” The way I will distribute the prizes are as follows: First prizes, First comers. So if by this time next week, the first prize winners didn’t claim, I will be giving away the prizes on a first come-first serve basis. The winners are:
Congratulations!
Before I go, I want to announce the best of the worst for Word Master Challenge January. For those of you who missed it, I mean that I’m announcing three Word Masters.
Sharing Second place are: Roland and Carter with two really hilariously bad entries.
In First Place (winning a ten chapter crit) by a small margin is August. His entry was insanely bad and funny, but is only for adult readers, so be warned.
Before I go, I want to say that the overall level of the entries were really good. So much so that I couldn’t do a top five as planned because fourth place was tied between five people. Thank you very much to all who entered.
If you want to kick yourself for not entering, hold off for a minute. February’s topic is announced, so check it out. If you don’t enter this time, though, feel free to kick away. 😉
There you have it, folks! Who’s in for WMC Feb? Who’s volunteering for the Paying Forward awards? (Don’t forget to mail me too. I have to be able to contact you later.) Any suggestions for Paying Forward Award Categories?
Because my business trip to Berlin threw my blog into more than a little chaos, I decided to do things a little differently from planned.
So, although I’ll announce January’s Word Masters tomorrow, I decided I’d announce February’s theme today to give anyone interested in signing up time to write something.
The Word Master Challenge rules are simple.
1) Every month, I announce a theme.
2) You have from announcement day until the end of the month (or a specified date) to enter.
3) To enter: Link up to your entry. I.E. I want a specific address leading straight to your entry.
4) I score each entry according to a set of parameters and announce the winner early the next month.
5) The winner gets to choose between a 10 chapter critique by me, a $10 voucher or a query critique by me.
This month’s theme:
Pick your favorite place in the world. What does it look like? What’s the mood like?
You can have 50 or so words to create an introduction. The entry itself must be no longer than 300 words.
Scoring Parameters:
1) Clear, concise description.
2) Evocative writing.
3) Effective use of senses.
Closing date for entries: 31 March
Winners and new theme to be announced: 2 April
I really loved what you all came up with in January, so I can’t wait to see what you can do this time.
Who’s in? http://www.simply-linked.com/listwidget.aspx?l=9667c789-9ff9-4bf9-80a4-64f00c93ad39
Yesterday, another thought struck me as to how to make MFB even more fun for you ladies and gents.
The idea of the Word Master Challenge is simple. Every month, (except possibly April), I’ll announce a theme for the challenge. It’ll be writing related in some way, but I’ll try to make every theme a little different. The winner of the month’s challenge wins a voucher to the internet book vendor of their choice or a 10 chapter crit from me.
January’s challenge will be:
In less than 300 words, I want to see your idea of the WORST beginning you can possibly write. The funnier and more creative you are, the better. To make it easier for me, you have the WHOLE of January to enter, but you must please enter the SPECIFIC entry link into the linky list below.
I’ll announce the winner and the new theme on 8 February.
http://www.simply-linked.com/listwidget.aspx?l=4c4e9769-11f5-4ab2-b37e-94cb9aa18442 Who’s in? Any Questions?
The Five Year Project 